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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-06-16
Chauncey Depew and the Reporters.

Chauncey Depew and the Reporters.
Mr. Depew is at all times an agreeable
talker, and to reporters he is especially so.
viewed,'' said he, while here tho other
day, "and I gave in on that finally. 1t
was very late at night, and had gone to
bed more than usually tired. I was in the
midst of my first sleep, which is my best,
when tho door bell rang. made up my
mind wouldn' t answer, hoping that Who
ever he was he would tire out and go. But
he didn't, and finally I got up and went
down to the door and ushered in young
man. Mr.. Depew,' said he, I am O news
paper reporter. My wife is very sick and
the doctor says must take her to Clifton
Springs tomorrow. don't como to you
for q pass; don't ask you for money.
One Of the newspapers (naming one of the
leading dailies of New York; has given me
q column and a half. I've got to fill it.
The money I will get for it will, perhaps,
save my wife's life have walked the
streets an hour wondering what I would
write, when thought of you. Now,
want you to fill that space
"'But,' said !, what shall talk
about"
"HAnything,' said he. So walked up
and down the room and commenced to
talk upon subject. No. said lie, I
don't think they'd like that Then I
started of on another. I'm afraid OF
that, said he. He suggested topic, but
that was professional and could not talk
to him about it. Then rambled off q
category Of different things until he inter
rupted me on one. 'That'u do,' said he;
give me something on that, and I fired
q speech at him. In few minutes he
stopped. That's enough, Mr.. Depew,'
said he; I've got my column and half,
and he had. The next morning the inter-
view appeared, and my night friends wife
no doubt received the benefit Of it."-Al-
bany Journal.
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The mode of procedure in the village Of
Galashiels was as follows Early in the
day after the marriage those interested in
the proceeding assembled at the house of
the newly welded couple, bringing with
them sicreeln or basket, which they
filled with stones. The young husband,
on being brought to the door, had the
creel firmly fixed to his back, and with it
in this position had to run the round OF
the town, or at least the chief portion OF
it, followed by number of men to sec
that he did not drop his burden, the only
condition on which he was allowed to do
so being that his wife should come after
him md kiss him. AS relief depended al
together upon the wife, it would some
times happen that the husband did not
need to run more than few yards; but
when she was more than ordinarily bash
full, or wished to have little sport at the
expense Of her lord and master-which, 1t
may be supposed, would not unfrequently
be the case-he had to carry his load a
considerable distance.
This custom was very strictly enforced,
and the person who was last creeled had
charge Of the ceremony, and he was nat
urally anxious that no one should escape.
The practice, as far as Galashiels was con-
cerned, came to IN end about 100 years
ago, with the person Of one Robert Young,
who, on the ostensible plea of O "sore
back,n lay abed all the day after his mar
riage, and obstinately refused to get up
and be creeled. He had, it may be added
in extenuation, been twice married before,
and had on each occasion gone through
the ceremony of being creeled, and now,
no doubt, felt that he had had quite
enough Of erecting. the Year Round.
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"A Vermont farmer plants a sun.

"A Vermont farmer plants sun
flower seed instead of pole to each hill
of beans. The sturdy stalk answers for 8
pole, and the seeds supply an excellent
feed for poultry.
"My husband is very absent.
minded man." said Mrs. slowboy. "He
very often takes one thing for another"
81 know it." said Mrs. Badman. II saw
him take hot toddy last night" and he
said he took it for cold"
= Asheville Citizen :-"In Chatham
County white deacon set steel trap in
his corn crib, and upon visiting it in the
morning found colored deacon with
four fingers in the trap.
Never has the quality of honey been
better than it is this year. BY the way,
good, old fashioned corn bread, baked in
skillet, buttermilk from the spring
house, with honey fresh from the hive,
and little yellow butter are pretty hard
to beat. Carolina Spartan.
The fourth finger of the left hand has
from the earliest ..date been used as 8
wedding ring finger. The ancient belief
was that nerve in this finger went dir
ecty to the heart. The modern belief is
that the nerve leads directly to the
pocketbook, and strange to say, after the
ring is bought, the modern terminus 81
r'th haltseaerre ats eeerrre Is often lighter than the an
cient one ever could have been.-Je,celer's
Weekly.
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She Knev tho Answers.


a professor in certain musical college
once told me of pupil who attended his
lectures-a young woman from some re-
mote place like Seattle or Los Angeles,
who attracted his attention by her extreme
devotion to her work, her regularity-in
fact, by all that goes to make q pupil solid
with the faculty. Moreover, she was
beautiful as the day, with large and stat
uesque beauty, as Of strong, full ma
ture, serene, calm and unilisturbed. But
alas! when examinations came and papers
were handed in hers was found to be sim
ply impossible. It was evident that be-
hind that Juno like brow there were no
brains. In fact, such paper was never
seen before; even the spelling was ludi-
crous, while grammar and music wcre
equally injured and outraged in every
line. Tears could not move my stern
friend, and his report was-''not passed. !"
But it was intimated to him that there
were reasons why it was absolutely essen
tial that the pupil should graduate, while
her knowledge might be acquired after
ward. Accordingly she applied for re-
examination, and the questions were then
something like this: !. Is not tho SYM
phonJ \ highest form of purely musical
expires 4? 2. Was not Bcrlioz remarka-
bic for 81 mastery of ingenious orchestral
effectss 3. Is not Bach called the father
of modern music2 "And to my astonish-
ment and qualification, said the professor
gravely, "to every one of these puzzling
questions she answered with great perspi-
cacity, 'Yes,' and passed triumphantly-
average mark in my class, 100 per cent. !"
-uarper's Weekly.
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London,a Finest Hotel.

It is O remarkable fact that in London
Jump should have been made i'll almost
O single bound from the old fashioned
English inn, with its dark, lily ventilated,
crnmped and uncomfortable Railways end
bedrooms, to such hotel as the Metrop-
ole, with its 800 high and we'll lighted
rooms, it's richly furnished saloons, and
all the other beauties and advantages that
the most advanced modern architecture
can devise. No one can step into this
world renowned establishment without
an expression Of wonder and delight.
The building alone, to say nothing of it's
perfect arrangements, is now one OF the
institutions Of London that must be seen
by every American traveller. Naturally
it has come to be the center OF American
travel in London and majority of its
guests is often made up of Americans.
No single hotel in Europe begins to ap-
proach the Metropole in popularity with
American travellers. 1t is also the favor
ite with the English public It's superb
Whitehall rooms are the best of their kind
in London. 1t was only few weeks ago
that the Prince Of Wales presided there
Mt the seventy-fourth anniversary of the
London Orphan asylum, when contribu-
tions reaching $4,000 were handed in.
The Metropole is the princes favorite
hotel, for the reason that its beauty Of
construction and interior decorations and
its advantages generally are incomparably
superior to those of any other hotel in
I,ondon,-NeW York World.
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Senator ingalls, Disgusted.

Senator Ingalls, is dissatisfied at the
breach made in the color line in some of
the States in the South. He is quoted
in the Boston Herald as having remarked
recently: II have no hesitation in say
ing that granting the right of suffrage to
the colored people has proven an abso-
lutte and unqualified failure" This con.
fession from so thorough a radical Re-
publican as Senator IDgalls is significant
of his disgust at the changes in the
colored vote that the later Southern
elections have shown. They have not
been so strongly manifested in Virginia
as in States further to the South, but it is
evident that Senator Ingalls, very clearly
sees that the Republican party South is
in danger of disintegration by the defec-
tion of a considerable portion of its
colored allies, and that the absolute and
unqualified failure" of the reconstruction
policy lies in the fact that by granting
the right of suffrage to the colored people
it has largely increased the number of
Southern Democratic representatives in
Congress over and above what it was be-
fore these newly created citizens swelled
the popular vote. So long as the colored
people could be organized into Republi-
can clubs and led by few white Repub-
lican leaders like flock of sheep to the
polls, and carpet baggers and renegades
by their help were 10 control Of the sew
eral State governments, Senator Ingalls,
was perfectly satisfied that granting the
right of suffrage to the colored freedmen
was a wise policy. 1t was only when
they had gotten over the fear that was
sedulously ipstilled into them that they
would be remanded back into slavery if
the Democrats obtained possession of the
government that they began to think for
themselves and to act independently of
Republican dictation. Now that they
have learned that their freedom is quite
as we'll assured to them under Democratic
as under Republican control, it is not at
all strange that while they were always
ready to ask the advice of their own
people in all matters outside Of politics,
they should now be ready to steadily
incre asipg extent to follow their advice
in politics. s.-BaAimore Sun.
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Interview With Mr. Blaine.

The New York World of June l prints
an elaborate account of visit made by
correspondent to Mr.. Blaine at his
house in Augusta, Me-, and afterwards
at his cottage at Bar Harbor, in the
course of which Mr.. Blaine gave fully
his plans for his forthcoming trip, dis
cussed the false reports of his failing
health and referred at length to the work
he has bestowed upon the books just
finished. He says his visit abroad will
extend over more than year, and doubt.
less beyond the time of the meeting Of
the next National Convention. To the
World correspondent Mr.. Blaine said !:
ri am going abroad and expect to be
away about year. Mrs. Blaine and my
two daughters, Marguerite and Hattie,
will make up the party. have engaged
state rooms on the Ems, which sails
Wednesday week. We shall stop at
Southampton and 60 at once to London.
We intend to spend a considerable time
travelling through Great Britain. After
England we will probably go into Scot.
land, and Ireland. Then l think we
shall spend time in Germany, and after
that take France. By this time it will
probably be getting 80 late in the year
that Spain and Italy will be comfortable.
We intend to make tour through both
OF these countries and spend next Winter
along the Mediterranean. We will pro:
badly mast- long visits in Rome and
Greece, perhaps stop brief time time II IN Cen.
stantinople, and visit the scenes of the
recent earthquakes in the South of
France and adjoining portions of Italy.
A year is sufficient 10 cover great deal
Of ground without hurryipg."
The correspondent asked: "How
about the report, Mr.. Blaine, that you
contemplate in some way assisting Mr..
Gladstone and the Home Rule party ?"
''That story is purely imaginative. I
never had such an idea in my mind"
ut has been widely published that
your trip to Europe is for the benefit of
your health. Is that the case?"
II have had hardly sick day in my
life. Never any time serious, and I never
had an organic trouble of any kind"
Mr.. Blaine positively declined to talk
about politics, except that while in con-
versation with the correspondent in his
cottage at Bar Harbor he said, in regard
to the Burchard incident in 1884: 81
didn't hear what he said, but the report
ers heard it, and next day every paper in
the country had it, of course, but as a
matter of fact, did not hear it myself.
Way out in Indiana they had it that [
said it."
"In good many places in the West
they had slips of paper printed with
Read What Mr.. Blaine says on them,
and distributed them in front of the
churches on Sunday. That is what lost
me the election. You know, of course,
how close it was. Well, in New York
city alone it lcot me several thousand
votes, good deal more than enough to
have carried the State. / have never felt
sure that was not elected. 1t was a
matter of less than 600 votes to have
turned New York the other way. When
it is aa close as that there is no certainty
of the count. / do not think it can ever
be said with certainty which one of us
really got the most votes.
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Metropolitan Burglars.

A gentleman whom I met this after
noon, commenting on the purchase by
Tiffany for 10000 francs of the French
crown Jewels, made the remark that there
is more treasure stored in the city of New
York than in any other city of the world.
ssFor two reasons" said he, ut Is the
most valuable city to sack. In the first
place, great amount Of all sorts OF treas
ure-bullion, diamonds and precious
stones of all sorts-is stored In safes which
any expert burglar can open in half an
hour with appliances which can be carried
in the vest pocket" He said that man
could carry in his vest pocket that
which would open any safe now In use.
"It does not require an expert man,
either" said he. "You can do it; any
body can do it.n Then this gentleman
went on to demonstrate clearly how it
could be done. He said there is no secu-
rity in safes, and the only way Is to have
7aluables guarded by watchman. He
SAID this is the reason for tbe grnruth 1T
these great safe denosit companies. he
then illustrated IL by saying that q. vial
nitro-e]gsreri with,a percussion cap and
-nEman piece of putty, was all that was
necessary to do the work on any safe that
was now manufactured.-Cor. Phtladel-
phia Times.
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Suppression of Strong Perfumes.

Why doesn't some female Anthony
Comstock, or Henry Bergh, or other re-
former start society for the suppression
of patchoun and musks Why are inno-
cent men and women forced to endure
these sickening odors strong enough to
be called smellS that are sold under some
fancy names at very cheap pricesa Why
am /, who only like faint perfumes, to
have to sit next to woman who can make
me endure, by the wave of her fan or the
flourish of her handkerchief, perfumes
that make me absolutely sick? Why is
Jack, who has very healthy taste for
eau de cologne and abominates everything
else, forced to suffer the same thing2
Why should whole stage load of people
be made the victims Of some atrociously
dressed woman who confides to her COM
panion that she uses pints of extracts
every week, pouring them on her under
clothing until every particle is thoroughly
impregnated with them. Carbolic acid
would be Thousand times better, and
benzine or varnish would be heavenly be-
side such dreadful waves of suffocating
stuff. It is horribly bad form, and yet
women who know q thousand times better
do not hesitate to commit this atrocity.-
"Bab" in New York Star.
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1t was reported on the streets ye

- 1t was reported on the streets yes
terday morning that four people, two men
and two women, had run away from the
poor house for the purpose of getting
married. Of all the Gretna Greens on
record, this is pre- eminently the boss.
One of the men is named Samuel Parks
and his age is rs years. He hasn't a
tooth in his head, and his blushing
partner was Cynthia Parks, whose age is
sweet 6S. The other couple was Green
Kimmons, aged 80, and Sarah Baldwin,
aged 20. Before their departure they
told some of the inmates of the poor
house Of their Intentions Charlotte
Chronicle.
The Boston Journal Of Education
says: Before marriage the question girl
asks her lover most often is: "Do you
really love?" After marriage the query
becomes: "Is my hat on straight"
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A Composite Glass Photograph.

The present seniors in Harvard college
have wisely decided to have q composite
class photograph taken. Such picture
will be very interesting, and, If the prac-
tice were continued in succeeding years,
as, for example, on every fifth or tenth
commencement, or upon the occasion OF
the class dinner, at intervals Of five or
ten years, the result would be series Of
photographs Of great value. If a young
man just graduating needs any sobering
down treatment, which is a doubtful point
in these days Of moderate expectations, it
might be applied by showing him what he
is almost sure to become at 40, 30, 90, 70,
and even 80 years of age, should he live
so long.-Boston Post.
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A Slight Confusion.

"Boss. Ize a bit confused bout
suthin'," aaid one of the negro white
washers at the market to Detective Webb
the other day.
"Well, what is it?'
"What does per annum mean z"
"Per year, of course"
"a hull y'ar?"
eyes, whole year."
"Can't be no istake ?"
"No sir"
eff I borry So of Abraham Johnson
an agree to pay Zoe. per annum dat
means zoe. a var, does it?"
"It does"
sHul Dar's gwine to befde biggest
row in Kaintuck tonight you sbfr66f1
tell of." ~
"About what?" -
"About dat per annum.. nyyed 81
of de pusson menshunedsst Nper cent
per annum, an fur de las 'fo'teen months
he's bin collecting 20c. week as regu'
lar as a clock. Stuck right to it, he did,
dat per annum ment ebery Saturday
night. Law but when / gifts desc paws
on him won't per annum take fiop?"
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Essax on "The seasons.n

Mary was a girl with scarcity Of ideas,
but little stock of quotations, which she
lugged in on every possible occasion.
When asked to write composition on
'sThe Seasons" she triumphantly pro-
duced the following: "Therc are four sea-
sons-spring, summer, autumn and win
ter. Some like summer, and some like
winter, but as for me, give me liberty or
give me death. .''-Harper's Bazaar.
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She Needed None to Defend Her.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN: Eie ssl.-h1isa
Mary Childsrs. pretty school teacher OF
Trenton, Ga, heard three weeks ago
that John Mogors had been circulating
slanderous remarks about her. She rode
across Lookout Mountain, distance of
fifteen miles, and at the muzzle of shot
gun forced her traducer to apologize.
Then she published Mogors as "an
Infamous scoundrel anA traducer of
womauly virtue" and that -"his parents
had descended from the whipping posts
of South Carolina" When Mogors saw
this be sent Miss Childers challenge to
fight, and the little woman went to the
spot to meet him, but he did not come to
time. She has now gone to find him and
whip him for his cuwardice.
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Bucklen's ArDaca Salve.

The Best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-.
lively cures Piles, or no pay required.
It il guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
tion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For sale by Hill Bros, Ander.
son. S. G.
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After the Battle.

Perhaps the most shocking sight of the
battlefield the day after the battle was the
evidence of rascality which the helpless
dead afforded. The writer has seen many
battles-how many it would be hard to
say-yet he never saw one dead body on
the field the day after the battle that all
its pockets were not turned inside out.
There were some soldiers, especially when
late in the war the number of substitutes
had become large, who were degraded
enough to rife the dead, but most of the
villainous work was done by the camp
followers, the horde of hired teamsters
and other civilian employees and attaches
Of the army.-T. F. Galwey in Chicago
Herald
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'em to do it. ALI he had to do, arter the
sarpints see wat were 'spected of 'em,
were to fill the splitter snakes egg cham
bers with corn an start 'em out, an away
they'd 60 They could drill, drop an
Hyer more corn ground in one day than
ten men could in a week. don't see
wat in the world they ever let setch q
race o'--but sh=h-hl Peleg! Here's yer
granmammyr'
But Peleg was asleep, and when Maria
came in the Old Settler was deep in the
columns Of The Clarion Blast OF Free
dom.-Ed. Mott in New York Sun.
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The telephone wire between Brussels
and Paris was put to fraternal uss re-
Gently by the advantage of microphone.
The Partisan people, being invited to lis
ten to band Of music in Brussels, heard
over the wire French melody, and heard
it SO distinctly that not note was missed.
s-Chicago Times.
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Life In bermuda.

poakc Caller (who has come down on
last steamer)-What is that balmy, spicy
odor that watts in ut the easement and
seems to send the now life spinning
through my sluggish northern blood?
Practical Caller (who has been there
three weeks)--O Onions. It'd Bits.
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Tho soudan Chieftain.

A red headed Texan thinks it ridiculous
for Lord Wolseley to write about the war
between tho states. "He never fought
anything but naked niggers and half
starved, half armed barbarians,' u says the
Texan, s'and they mostly got the best OF
him, n-Montgomery Advertiser.
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Steam Heat In Railway Cars.
:. The Engineering News, in the course Of
On able article on the substitution Of steam
heat for stove heat In railway cars, shows
that no more than 1-2 to 3 1-2 per cent.
Of the locomotives supply Of steam is re.
quired for heating the average train. It
adds that this quantity can be obtained
without reducing the load, increasing the
heat surface, decreasing the speed, or de-
:creasing the loss by radiation. It is only
necessary to push the fires little when
the locomotive Is ON level or down a
grade and to use steam that can be spared
while the train. is resting at stations
Chicago Times.
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Mr. CHARLES a1aokey's Mistake.

Mn Charles Mackey jeers at the SEN
tence "When the hay Is in the NOW, !"
evidently under the impression that the
last word is substantive coined from the
verb. ssto now" eff this were good Eng
lish," he says, "why should 1t not be fol-
lowed by such companion compositions as
when the corn is in the reap,' when the
sheep are in the shear, or even When
the cows are in the milk'W Some day
Mr.. Mackey viii find out what a blunder he
has made, and then he will wont to go
out in the back yard and kick himself
New York Tribune.